Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Mobilize Youth

October 2008

October 30, 2008

My friend Nathan just sent an email
around about an app he built that interface's with Twittervotereport
which was built by volunteers in partnership with techPresident;
it turns your phone into an on-the-spot volunteer election reporting
mechanism. The aggregate effect will be to visualize reporting problems
around the nation in real time. Election monitoring orgs have been
dreaming about this for eons!! Here's the email from Nathan:

Twitter Vote Report is an all-volunteer network of software developers,designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winningblog techPresident to launch this effort. The only resourcescontributed to this project are the participants’ time and expertise!Millions of Americans will be voting this Election Day. Many of thesevoters will have terrific experiences and we’d love to hear aboutthose. But many voters will experience voting problems that we havebeen hearing about for years: long lines, broken machines, andregistered voters who can’t vote because their names aren’t showing upon the registration rolls. Using Twitter Vote Report, voters will beable to share their experiences and resources with one another to solveproblems quickly (e.g. “don’t come now, the line is too long”). Thesemessages will then be aggregated and mapped so that we can “see” votingproblems around the country in real-time.